can't boot PCLinuxOS after installation

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I installed the iso file to a U.S.B. stick and booted into the liveCD option. Everything worked. I chose to install the operating system to a SATA hard-drive partition. I opted to install the GRUB boot loader to pclinuxos's root partition as I have a boot loader already in the MBR which boots my current Linux operating system. I couldn't boot, however.

I then booted back into the liveCD option to try to install GRUB via the command line. I did:

(as root user)
Grub
find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd1,7)
setup (hd1,7)

as the root partition is on sdb8. This did not work. I also tried
grub-install /dev/sdb8

Any ideas?

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